Problem with List box form control properties

When attempting to define the list of items to appear in a List box form
control, Barbara and I can't work out how to get the list items to be
selectable in a drop-down list. The instructions in Chapter 15 of the Writer
Guide don't work: the whole list appears on one line when the dropdown arrow
is clicked (out of design mode) and the individual items are not selectable.
I've tried other input variations without success. Is this a bug, or are we
missing some option or property that needs to be set differently?

Hal

Hi, :slight_smile:

Pass. Maybe it's worth asking this question on the devs list. They'd
probably give you quick and helpful answers.

David Nelson

I submitted a bug report Jan 27:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33537

There's been no QA contact assigned yet, so apparently nothing is happening there. I haven't subscribed to the devs list (getting totally swamped with the ones I'm on already!). Hal, do you want to try that route?

Hi Barbara, Hal, :slight_smile:

OK, it's a good step to file a bug report. But, often, it's a useful
move to discuss the issue beforehand to clarify whether it is indeed a
bug or whether it's down to something else.

If you were to post to the devs list, or even the user support list
(and then CC someone like Michael Meeks as well), you might get the
answers you need.

Anyway, my experience with bug reports is that they *do* get attended
to - and fairly quickly - but still it can take a few days before
someone checks it out, especially if it doesn't fall in the
showstopper class. Also, the reports that get the most attention are
those that are filed with a lot of detail (screenshots, step-by-step
explanations, etc.).

Let's see what happens already. I'll bookmark this thread to follow up
on it by trying to reproduce the problem.

David Nelson

Hi all,

Anyway, my experience with bug reports is that they *do* get attended
to - and fairly quickly - but still it can take a few days before
someone checks it out, especially if it doesn't fall in the
showstopper class. Also, the reports that get the most attention are
those that are filed with a lot of detail (screenshots, step-by-step
explanations, etc.).

I have confirmed that I have been unable to get this to work, without
binding to a data source (which I haven't tried) - with NeoOffice 3.1.2
Patch 4, OOo 3.2.1, OOo 3.3.0 final, and LibO 3.3.1 RC2.

Either we are all doing something wrong (like Barbara I tried every
which way imaginable to get the list entered), or else the functionality
has ceased to work correctly.

FYI, binding listboxes to datafield lists of results via listboxes has
broken, been repaired, broken again with successive versions of OOo from
3.1.x through 3.2.1 to 3.3.x. I haven't tried my old db forms recently
to see if the problem has come back again.

Alex

Thanks, Alex, I really appreciate your attention to this! David, in this case the step-by-step process in the Writer Guide was cited, and some possible alternatives that were tried. I definitely agree with not just filing bug reports as a first step, but this seemed pretty clear-cut. I spent too many years as a software developer to be cavalier about bug reporting!

Sorry, I'm not going to join the devs list (no time for another list), so I
hope someone else (who is already on that list) will ask and then let us
know the answers.

Hal

Hi Hal, Barbara, :slight_smile:

Sorry, I'm not going to join the devs list (no time for another list), so I
hope someone else (who is already on that list) will ask and then let us
know the answers.

OK, well as soon as I get a chance to reproduce the problem myself,
I'll follow up on it.

David Nelson

Hello

To create a list for a 'Listbox' or Combobox':

On 'Control' toolbar select 'Design View'
Right Click on Listbox control: Select 'Control'
'General' tab
Scroll down to 'List Entries'
Type in first entry. e.g. Tom
Shift Enter
Type in next entry. e.g. Ted
etc...
This builds the list.

Tom

LibreOffice 3.3.0
OOO330m17 (Build:3)
libreoffice-build 3.3.0.1
on Vista

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:33 PM, TomW <tomwebb@fairpoint.net> wrote:Hello

To create a list for a 'Listbox' or Combobox':

On 'Control' toolbar select 'Design View'
Right Click on Listbox control: Select 'Control'
'General' tab
Scroll down to 'List Entries'
Type in first entry. e.g. Tom
Shift Enter
Type in next entry. e.g. Ted
etc...
This builds the list.

Tom

SHIFT+Enter -- OMG, that works. The resulting list is selectable, as it
should be.

I thought I'd tried all the common key combinations, but obviously not.

Thank you! Thank you!

Well, I guess I can go check out that chapter again and finish updating it.
:slight_smile:

Hal

________________________________
From: TomW <tomwebb@fairpoint.net>
To: documentation@libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 22 February, 2011 2:33:44
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Problem with List box form control
properties

On 2011-02-21 12:39, Alexander Thurgood wrote:

Le 21/02/11 18:09, David Nelson a écrit :

Hi all,

Anyway, my experience with bug reports is that they *do* get attended
to - and fairly quickly - but still it can take a few days before
someone checks it out, especially if it doesn't fall in the
showstopper class. Also, the reports that get the most attention are
those that are filed with a lot of detail (screenshots, step-by-step
explanations, etc.).

I have confirmed that I have been unable to get this to work, without
binding to a data source (which I haven't tried) - with NeoOffice 3.1.2
Patch 4, OOo 3.2.1, OOo 3.3.0 final, and LibO 3.3.1 RC2.

Either we are all doing something wrong (like Barbara I tried every
which way imaginable to get the list entered), or else the functionality
has ceased to work correctly.

FYI, binding listboxes to datafield lists of results via listboxes has
broken, been repaired, broken again with successive versions of OOo from
3.1.x through 3.2.1 to 3.3.x. I haven't tried my old db forms recently
to see if the problem has come back again.

Alex

Hello

To create a list for a 'Listbox' or Combobox':

On 'Control' toolbar select 'Design View'
Right Click on Listbox control: Select 'Control'
'General' tab
Scroll down to 'List Entries'
Type in first entry. e.g. Tom
Shift Enter
Type in next entry. e.g. Ted
etc...
This builds the list.

Tom

LibreOffice 3.3.0
OOO330m17 (Build:3)
libreoffice-build 3.3.0.1
on Vista

Hi :slight_smile:
Another person with an excellent name. I almost always sign-off the same way as
i always do and i don't have a signature = so you can easily distinguish between
different Toms. Good work chap.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

I have now finished updating the chapter and sent it to Reviewing.

Hal

Thanks, TomW! I just added the old instructions to the bug, now I'll update the bug report with the solution.

Hi all,

I actually did use the Shift-Enter key combo to create my list, but was
doing it in the Data tab and not the General tab. If you do it in the
Data tab under the ValueList entry then the function does not work :-/

Alex